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Aalia Mehreen Ahmed is the Features Editor at Entrepreneur Middle East.
She is an MBA (Finance) graduate with past experience in the corporate sector. Ahmed is particularly keen on writing stories about people-centric leadership, female-owned startups, and entrepreneurs who've beaten significant odds to realize their goals.
In her role as Features Editor, she has interviewed the likes of Dr. Jane Goodall, Sania Mirza, KL Rahul, and Najwa Zebian.
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Follow The Leader: Thomas Flohr, Founder And Chairman, Vista Global Holding
Flohr, has successfully transformed a venture that started with operating just two aircrafts into a global private aviation group with 350 jets flying to every continent.
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Intersectional Impact: Dana Co-Founder And CEO Zada Haj Is Tackling The MENA’s Needs For Sustainability And Gender Inclusion With Her Enterprise
Haj believes that creating a more robust agrifood sector with purpose-led infrastructure and appropriate financial backing will decidedly strengthen gender inclusion, as one in four entrepreneurs in the agrifood sector is female.
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Startup Spotlight: Here’s How Abu Dhabi-Based Heidron Energy Solutions Is Producing Lighter (And Cheaper) Batteries For Electric Vehicles
By offering Li-ion batteries made out of Silicon anodes, Abu Dhabi-based Heidron Energy Solutions is looking to create a less complex and much cheaper way to produce energy sources for electric vehicles.
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“We Got Funded!” UAE-Based Foodtech Startup ChatFood Secures US$3 Million In A Bridge Round As It Expands Into Saudi Arabia
As a platform that enables mobile ordering and marketing solutions for hospitality brands, ChatFood hopes to capitalize on advantageous social media trends in Saudi Arabia.
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Dubai-Based B2B Fintech Startup Lune Makes Financial Transaction Data Useful For MENA Entities
For Alexandre Soued and Helal Lootah, co-founding their Dubai-based fintech startup Lune came about as a result of observing a massive lack of financial literacy among UAE residents.
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At Innovation Café Qatar, It’s All About Creativity, Collaboration, And, Yes, Coffee
Innovation Café Qatar is ensuring entrepreneurs in the peninsula can innovate, network, and thrive- all while enjoying some fresh coffee
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Social Platform Fanera Is All About Connecting Football Fans In An Engaging, Interactive Way
Fanera is an app designed "for and by football fans" to share and engage with football content created by a community of fans, influencers, players, and clubs.
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Startup Spotlight: Predixa Is Helping Companies Across The UAE Unlock The Financial Value Of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion
Helping companies realize the social, as well as financial value associated with achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion forms the crux of Predixa's mission.
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Startup Spotlight: AR Engineering Is Optimizing Digital Learning To Help Students Be More Job-Ready
Through its subscription-based augmented reality learning app, AR Academy, the firm offers access to a catalog of three-dimensional engineering systems, it enables students to interact with and operate these systems from remote locations.
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Startup Spotlight: AI-Based Platform Metanoa Is Enabling The Early Diagnosis Of Learning Disorders In Children
Metanoa enables the early diagnosis of developmental disorders such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, speech delays, and others.
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“We Got Funded!” UAE-Based Cartlow Raises US$18 Million Series A Round With The Aim To Dominate The MENA Region’s Recommerce Ecosystem
With this latest round of funding, Cartlow aims to expand further into Saudi Arabia and other emerging markets while keeping a keen focus on ensuring greater sustainability.
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UAE-Based Agritech Firm Pure Harvest Smart Farms Raises US$180.5 Million To Scale Up Growth In New Markets
Pure Harvest co-founder and CEO Sky Kurtz believes the latest infusion of capital will enable his firm to scale globally, while also addressing challenges related to food security, food supply chains, and sustainability.
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based MyUniPath Helps MENA Students Choose The Right Universities To Enrol In
By helping students figure out the "right" program, as well as how to pay for it, MyUniPath is helping students find the universities that best suit their requirements.
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Startup Spotlight: Luxembourg-Headquartered Maana Electric Is Bringing Its Sustainable Solar Panel Producing Mobile Factories To The UAE
With an aim to become "the utility company of the solar system," Maana Electric has developed a mobile factory, called the TerraBox, that can produce solar panels using only sand and electricity- a model it hopes to recreate on the Moon and Mars as well.
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By Saying No To The Status Quo, Dubai-Based B2B Business Solutions Platform KonnectEd Offers Tech Solutions To Everyday Problems
As a startup that offers services ranging from developing mobile apps to building custom websites, KonnectEd aims to cater to the technological shifts that are being witnessed across a diverse range of sectors.
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Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Flashy Aims To Become A Market Leader In The Commercial Brand Photography Domain
Flashy provides professional product/service photography for e-commerce businesses as well as those that operate in the F&B, hospitality, events, and real estate sectors.
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based AS2 Systems Offers Cutting-Edge Technologies That Can Help Secure Maritime Autonomy
Launched in September 2020, AS2 Systems is a tech startup that uses its proprietary technologies to develop a secure "command and control" system that offers autonomous control of any vessel, irrespective of its size or complexity.
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Born In The UAE, Conquering The World: AWJ Investments Is Going Places With Co-Founder And Group CEO Manhal Naser
With the launch of his flagship restaurant Operation:Falafel's first international branch in New York, Manhal Naser gets candid on what business growth, leadership, and Middle Eastern cuisine mean to him.
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Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Fleetroot Is Easing Last-Mile Delivery Hassles For Businesses Across The MENA
In addition, the logistics platform also helps improve the safety and efficiency of connected operations by offering fleet management tools.
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Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Production Company All Is Media Is Giving Female-Centric Stories A Platform
AIM focuses on building a strong homegrown talent pool, as well as on producing content from the region targeted primarily towards the young adult audience
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We Got Funded: Dubai-Based NorthLadder Secures US$10 Million Through Convertible Note Led By CE-Ventures
The company will use the funding to double down its focus in the GCC, expand its dealer network to one or two countries in the Middle East and Africa, and supply sources to a few large clients in the US and Europe.
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Riding The (Digital) Wave: KMMRCE Holdings Founder Darren Hodgkin
KMMRCE Technologies and KMMRCE Pay are the latest culmination of Hodgkin's entrepreneurial learnings so far.
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KSA-Based Taffi Aims To Become The MENA’s Leading Personalized Styling Services Provider After Raising Over US$2 Million In A Seed Round
As an online fashion marketplace that connects brands, customers, and fashion stylists with each other, Taffi also offers expert recommendations from stylists from the comfort of one's own home.
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Ezze Car Aims To Simplify The Car Renting Process In The Country
Ezze Car was launched as a virtual marketplace for car rental companies to list their cars and manage their fleets, with an aim to become a one-stop-shop for car renters to find cars that meet their requirements.
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The Emirati Genome Program: A Gamechanger For Healthcare In The UAE
Insights from a webinar that was staged by Entrepreneur Middle East in collaboration with the Emirates Health Services Authority in February this year to mark the 2022 edition of UAE Innovates.
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Shaking Up The (Food) Scene: UAE-Based Entrepreneurs Ranya And Khaled Fadly Launch KR & Co To Unify Their 17 F&B Concepts
With the launch of KR & Co, a 10,000 sq. ft. central production facility in Dubai that operates on a cloud kitchen business model, the Fadlys are looking to further cement their position in the UAE's F&B sector.
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Enabling Efficiency: Dubai-Based Klaim Is Helping MENA’s Healthcare Providers Do Away With Delayed Medical Insurance Claim Payments
By becoming an intermediary in the traditional insurance payment cycle, Klaim is addressing a financial issue that has long been plaguing healthcare providers in the MENA region: delayed and/or rejected claim payments.
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Here’s How Jeddah-Based Startup NOMADD Is Enabling A Mass-Scale Desert Solar Industry In Saudi Arabia
NOMADD was created with an aim to develop technology that can ensure solar generators can technically and commercially thrive in harsh desert-like terrains.
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Vietnamese Foodies Owner And Executive Chef Lily Hoa Nguyen On Growing Her Business From Strength To Strength
As someone who started cooking at the age of five in her native city of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Nguyen is clearly at home in her role today as the Executive Chef of Vietnamese Foodies, the award-winning homegrown restaurant franchise that she founded in 2018 in the UAE.
